These wines are certainly atypical for Mosel; certified organic, wild fermented and finished without additons - a departure from what you’d expect of the region.

Staffelter-Hof is one of the oldest working winemaking Estates in the world. Records show that this Estate, long owned by the Belgian Benedictine Abbey of Stavelot (hence the “Staffelter” name) was already active ... in 862AD. Secularised in the early 1800s and has been in the Klein family ever since.

Winemaker Jan is a vital member of the ‘Klitzekleine Ring’, a group of about a dozen winemakers around Traben-Trarbach dedicated to saving steep slope Mosel vineyards that would otherwise be abandoned.